Video Friday Number 5 the Wakefield Doctrine’s Supper Bowl XLVI Special!! (tell us about the Big Game and win a hat!)

February 3, 2012 By 5 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ).

It is not that clarks have anything against sports and/or sports extravaganzas, ’cause we don’t. But….

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The thing of it is, being the perennial outsiders, clarks have a little more insulation from the influences of those who would gather everyone into a big, excited, pulsating with anticipation, murmuring in hush but deafening tones, vibrating with the excitement anticipated, yearning to see the OMG-did-you-see-the-Staples-Commercial?
Each year we see the growing orchestration of our culture’s candidate for the Bread-and-Circus Hall of Fame Award. And each year, I find it more difficult to ignore the people who proclaim that, ‘I haven’t been following either team during the regular season, I really will be watching for the Commercials’.    (let me stop to allow for an overly dramatic emphasis…picture shaking ones’ head back and forth at a speed that blurs the features…cartoon-like).

…yes, I swear that I have heard real people make that statement, that they will sit in front of their wide screen HiDef TV’s  and wait for the Commercials to come on…

But I said at the beginning of this Post, ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) and I meant it! damn it!
And as everyone reading this knows, the Doctrine is a way of looking at the behavior of the people in our lives and, by inferring the nature of the world that this other person is experiencing ( the cold and lonely world of a clark or the predatory, exciting and messy-yet un-imaginative reality of the scott or the ‘gather in a herd’, because you are the center-of-the-universe-warm world of the rogers) and understand why this person acts the way that they do.
With the Wakefield Doctrine as our tool we will be able to understand ourselves better and as for the other person, hell, you will know what they will do,before they do!

 

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stodgy? slow and un-exciting Interviewer??! …the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Morning Serial

January 28, 2012 By 1 Comment

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So you think we don’t know how to “kick” “loose” around here at the Wakefield Doctrine, huh?  Is that what you think? Well, I must take exception with that characterization  ( WTF!! stop talking, send the clark back to work…bring on the movie!! )

Well, it may not be Road Runner cartoons with Coco Puffs al fresco, but here is our newest Feature*  the Wakefield Doctrine  Saturday Morning Serial!!

 

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*motto: we will just keeping putting stuff up there until they give up and start following the Doctrine

 

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Video Friday! “Det ar en fin bil och min hatt ar vacker!!” the Wakefield Doctrine theory of personality

January 27, 2012 By 2 Comments

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You know how cool this Doctrine thing is, right? …so cool that it has been successfully predicting it’s own ‘development’ right from the very damn start!  We said, way the hell back in the beginning of this blog, that the first people we would attract would be the ‘exceptional’ ones, the ones that had, (the term we coined was), ‘flexible intelligence’. The emphasis on ‘flexible’, ’cause it is about a person’s natural ability to take an odd idea and make it odder.  We have not been disappointed!

Today’s Video Friday is a perfect example of our penchant for attracting the ‘best and the most creative’!
As we all know, everyone who is active on the internet is pretty bright, and not overly shy. But the people we have been fortunate to meet, here at the Wakefield Doctrine are that plus…creative and adventurous and driven to find ‘the edge’, in other words: creative.

Today’s Guest  Ms. Claire Peek!  A Friend of the Doctrine (FOTD), Claire is a prolific and talented Authoress, currently engaged in ‘going as a student to the school there‘1 and still finding the time to join us for Video Friday. damn! At the outset of the year, Claire created two blogs that are totally fun to follow, so stop by Wordy World (and)  Perfect World  you will so not regret it!

 

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I trust the transcription conveys the ‘conversation’  that existed between the Doctrine and Claire. This, text and video format holds much promise for bringing people to the blog that, due to constraints imposed by geography or time-zonology might not have the opportunity to otherwise do so.

 

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So call or write in. Tell us that you want to come on the air for a Video Friday and we will be all over that shit.

 

1)  a line attributed to ‘the Lady’…you need to ask DS#1 or Progenitor roger about it

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

January 26, 2012 By 10 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.[1][2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600′s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!!  dude, yo  when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past.  Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

  • rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)
  •  most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!
  • the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**
  • in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers  love repeating patterns
  • the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while
  • hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:
  • …Ken Burns…
This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott!  As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”
I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***
Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!
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** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)
*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of  fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of  all non-herd members

 

 

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…if you could change one thing about yourself…right now! would you? the Wakefield Doctrine’s system of self-improvement

January 23, 2012 By 12 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding people and their ‘personalities’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding ourselves and our ‘personalities’.
The Wakefield Doctrine is unique and useful, fun and annoying.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience life in one of three characteristic worldviews: the world of the outsider, the world of the predator and the world of the herd member. The worldview that we choose to experience determines our ‘personality type’, not a making up a List of behaviors/Likes/phobias.
The goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is to enable us, through observation of another’s actions, to infer the worldview of the other person. Know their reality, know their personality.

There are two immediate benefits:

  1. we not only understand the ‘why’ of the person’s behavior, but we are able to predict their future behavior
  2. by understanding the nature of the world we ourselves experience, we are then able to see our strengths and our weaknesses much, much more clearly

Finally, the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the idea that while we all ‘choose’ one of the three worldviews to live our lives in, we never lose the capability to live in the world of the ‘other two’ worldviews.  It is this that give us the most effective tool for self-development, for self-improvement.
For example, if I am a clark and I desire to become a more effective ‘public speaker’,  then I need only to take advantage of the fact that I have the capacity to live in (and therefore) act appropriately in the world of scotts. The energy, the drive, the directness that make scotts very good public speakers is within me. All I have to do is call it out.

 

So, hey! Monday Morning Gossip and Goodies:

  • Great Saturday Night Drive!
  • Claire and Molly have been way, too way busy!  Claire, in part because besides writing Comments here and Posts on her own blog,  she is also now ‘going as a Student to the school there’.  (Best ask DS#1 or the roger) and Molly  welll! Molly is increasingly adding an element of elegant reserve to our Saturday Night conversations which is providing the grounding that forms a perfect backdrop for the energetic input of our more scottian participants …nice!
  • …heard from Nell Rose over the weekend (she is well and sends her best and will surely be talking to us in a Video Friday in the near future..)
  • ‘KH has started to hand Downspring glenn’s ass to him on scrabble more and more ( it’s a scottian thing…not a bad thing…better ask one of them)
  • DS#1 continues to give a voice to the Doctrine that is more and more useful to the newer Readers! (“…oh! so that is what that Post was trying to convey! …why the hell didn’t he just say that! lol  thanks DS” )
  • the roger sits and watches, waits and knows that there will come a moment when the reassuring sound of the herd grows around the Doctrine blog and he will step and say,  …”what?  no I won’t and you can’t make me!”

So tell all your damn friends to come and see us here at the Doctrine and we might even send you a hat (for your damn head).

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